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Beware of Dried Up “Bananas”
Four boys. Oh, the things that can mean to a mother that was raised with only 2 other sisters. Boys, for whatever reason, seem to have a natural inclination to things we girls don’t think are pretty, lovely, nice. Things that tend to be on the, shall we put it mildly(?), nasty side. Haven’t had a bath in a week – “What’s the sweat, mom? I don’t care.” Sleeping on sheets for a month or two – “Who cares mom?” Know what I mean, mom’s? Boys Actually Become Civilized (well, not completely) Now things are some better now that they are older. They do get more baths. Thank goodness! Hey they actually do grow up…
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Hunting for An Arizona Mule Deer
Just thought ya’ll would like to see the mule deer Wesley got the beginning of November. He’s been an avid student of Deerology for several months now, diligently reading books and haunting online deer forums. I told him I thought he deserved a Ph.D. in the topic by now. I really liked the part in his hunting story, where he took his boots off because they were squeaking since he didn’t want to spook the buck. Great job, Wesley. I never thought this deer and I would come together like we did – but it happened. . .
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October Family Updates Part III – Coues Deer Hunt
We’re getting there. Slowly but surely we’re making it through the family updates for October. Part I was general news around the homestead and Part II was our annual elk hunt. The third week of October was another hunt – this time for Coues deer. It was Zachary and Ethan’s hunt. (Ethan is my good friend Tina’s son.) Ethan has wanted to go elk hunting for a very long time but getting an elk tag in Arizona is not always that easy. So, he settled for a Coues hunt with Zachary. Apparently they didn’t put in for a very good area and never did shoot anything but they did have a good…
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October Family Updates Part II
How could I forget when I was posting our family updates for October that Justus and Audrey got the chicken pox? They started feeling sick to their stomache and had a slight fever and then the next day litte dots started showing up on their faces and other places. It took us awhile to figure out what it was. They did so well and tried really hard not to scratch. October always seems to be a short month for me because of the general elk hunting season here in Arizona. We only go for a week at the most (I went for 4 days this year.) but we do a lot of planning ahead…
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October Family Updates Part I
No family updates for the month of October since we were having 31 Days of Kitchen Inspiration. Since this blog is also a record of our family happenings, I’m going to give you all the updates for October in one post – maybe make that 2 or 3 posts. Towards the end of September, Zachary found himself a ‘new to him’ car to replace the truck he had been driving. The truck had come to a not very good end. I wrote about Zach’s accident here. The Garden – We picked almost all the basil and then made 3 1/2 pints of Pesto Sauce for the freezer. Seth arrived home from his summer…
